SINGAPORE (July 6): Singaporeans feverish with cabin fever have further reason to rejoice as the Singapore Tourism Board (STB) announced on Friday (July 3) that it would be allowing hotels to open for staycations and recreational areas for children.  Businesses in the tourism and hospitality in...

SINGAPORE (July 3): With interest rates likely to remain low until end 2021 as the economy follows a “U-shaped” or “L-shaped” recovery, DBS analysts Yeo Kee Yan and Janice Chua are recommending investors to load up on yield stocks for the foreseeable future.  “The US COVID-19 resurgence a...

SINGAPORE (July 2): As daily new confirmed cases reached 80,000 in the US last week, the UOB Kay Hian Singapore REIT (S-REIT) Index corrected 0.8% week-on-week to 247.7 in the same week. Analysts Jonathan Koh and Peihao Loke remain unfazed at the correction. In fact, they see it as an opportunity to...

SINGAPORE (June 25): As retail businesses and F&B outlets have resumed operations in Phase 2 of the reopening of Singapore’s economy, new opportunities in the real estate investment trusts (REITs) sector have appeared. UOB KayHian’s top five picks are CapitaLand Mall Trust, Frasers Centrepoi...

SINGAPORE (June 22): The manager of Starhill Global REIT announced that Lendlease Global Commercial REIT has been added to the FTSE Singapore All Cap Index and the Benchmark Index on Monday. The Benchmark Index is relevant to the determination of the performance fee that may be paid to the manager u...

SINGAPORE (June 9): CGS-CIMB analysts Eing Kar Mei and Lock Mun Yee believe hospitality REITs in Singapore are “heading for a good start”. On the “fast lane” arrangements with China, Eing and Lock believe this is a “big move in the right direction”. Moving forward, Eing and Lock are posi...

SINGAPORE (June 1): As Singapore begins to ease the circuit breaker (CB) measures starting with Phase 1 on June 2, several stocks and real estate investment trusts (REITs) could emerge as beneficiaries. This includes retail REITs, such as CapitaLand Mall Trust, Frasers Centrepoint Trust, Mapletree C...

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SINGAPORE (Apr 21): The Covid-19 outbreak in Singapore has significantly affected the country’s tourism industry. As such Singapore hotel REITs are trading below replacement cost, at around 0.5 to 0.6 times price-to-book ratio, at -2 standard deviation (SD) of their 10-year mean. On an enterpris...

SINGAPORE (April 16): On Apr 16, the Ministry of Finance (MOF), the Inland Revenue Authority of Singapore (IRAS), and the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) announced that MOF and IRAS will extend the timeline for S-REITs to distribute at least 90% of their taxable income from 3 months to 12 mon...